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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 777,149, dated December 13, 1904. Application iiled December 5, 1903. Serial No. 184,000' (No model.)

To caf/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SILAs D. SeUDDnR, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Travelers Certified Bank-Checks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a travelers certiiied bank-check adapted for use by those touring through different places and desiring to obtain funds without the inconvenience and delays incident to the ordinary method of identiiication and avoiding the necessity of procuring' letters of credit, particularly in foreign countries. Y

The invention consists in the arrangement of a check ornegotiable paper, which will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

lin the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the obverse side of a check embodying the features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the reverse side of the check.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding' parts in the views.

The check consists of a strip l of suitable paper having such dimensions as will adapt it to receive the matter to be printed thereon. The check may be said to be divided into three parts on its obverse sidea certification 9 a check 3, and a-n undetachable identiiication margin or coupon 4. The certiiieation Q and check 3 occupy the main body of the strip, and the former is arranged above the latter. The certilication contains instructions as to the use of the device as an entirety, provided the bearer of the paper corresponds to the identification matter displayed by the margin or coupon 4. The bank certification also has matter thereon to positively designate the number of days from the date of the same that the device as an entirety holds good or is negotiable and also the place and date of issue, the name'of the bank respon sible for the certification, and a place for the signatures of the president and cashier of the bank holdingvthe funds, as well as the means for designating on what bank the check 3 may be drawn. The cheek 3 is of the usual form of devices of this class, and .immediately below the place for the signature of the drawer are instructions to the e'ect that the entire paper must be indorsed on the back. This check also includes spaces to indicate when and where it was cashed. The identiiication margin or coupon i has at the bottom places for the signatures of the drawer and for a witness to the drawers signature. Above these signatures spaces are defined for the home address, oecupatioinage, weight, height, sex, complexion, and facial characteristics of the drawer and whether the latter is married or unmarried. On the reverse side of the strip l, extending transversely thereover near one end and occupying a portion of the space taken up by parts of the certilication and check on the obverse side, an order-blank 5, adapted to be signed by the drawer.

The improved bank-check as an entirety will be found exceptionally useful and convenient, and a number of the same may be issued at one time, if desired, to accommodate a traveler in different parts of his own or other countries. The bank or money-depository honoring the check or draft when presented by the proper party will immediately send the same for collection through proper Channels to the bank certified against.

Though care has been taken to reduce the mattei' on the eertiiication 2 and check proper, 3, as well as the identilieation margin or coupon 4, to a minimum, it will be understood that changes within the purview of the 'invention may be made therein.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new isi-- A travelers certilied bank cheek, having' identification matter at one end thereof, a bank certilieation extending' longitiulinally of the check and referring to the identification matter thereon, a check proper extending' longitudinally of the check, and an orderblank on the reverse side thereof.

In testimony whereof l aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SILAS D. SUUDDER.

Witnesses:

M. F. lione, Geenen C. HoLToN. 

